Pine bark mulches are the most beneficial for most landscape plants, and for growing blueberries and strawberries. Pine Bark is the Ultimate Mulch For more than twenty years we’ve been using pine bark mulch on our own gardens, while mulch fads came and went. Dyed red wood chips, cypress, dyed shredded rubber and dyed black …
Choosing the Right Potting Soil The key to success in container gardening is having the right “soil”, or potting mix. The potting “soil” used to grow container plants is really not soil at all. True soils are field soils that often retain too much water, have too little pore space (for oxygen), are too heavy, …
Making Fluffy Dirt – Improving Your Garden Soil My grandmother’s vegetable garden had the most wonderful rich, dark, crumbly soil I’ve ever seen. A powered tiller would have been a luxury in her world. Instead she set me to work “spading” it; painstakingly turning over every single shovelful, burying last years’ composted leaves and the …